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Pearl Jam: Art and Economy

Dave Marsh, Musician, April 1998

ROCK BANDS ARE like families on the Tolstoyan model. The happy ones are exactly the same (perhaps because they're nonexistent?) while the unhappy ones are each uniquely fitted to their own miseries.

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